WITHOUT YOU IN OCTOBER

The play Without You in October by one of the most significant contemporary Bulgarian playwrights, Konstantin Iliev, is a mercilessly satirical mirror of Bulgarian society from the late 1960s, when it was written, and this predestines its arduous stage life — the play never had a premiere in Sofia, and wherever it was staged, it proved politically inappropriate.

Without You in October is a crime story about the mysterious disappearance of a very valuable gold cross from a monastery; and about the strong but impossible love between a former student and a young criminal investigator.

In the lobby bar of a small Rhodope hotel reserved exclusively for Western European foreigners, the destinies and value systems of a group of young people collide. The tragic ending of this entertaining and amusing story confronts the audience with the chance to answer for themselves the great moral question: What is the price of upholding what is true, and the price of a compromised faith?

Director: Prof. Plamen Markov Set Designer: Prof. Mira Kalanova Composer: Petya Dimanova Cast: Georgi Alexiev, Lyuboslava Marinova, Marin Apostolov, Nikolay Stanoev, Samuil Goranov, Katrin Todorova, Viktor Dimitrov, Boris Dikov, Matey Michev, Aleksandra Zlateva, Zornitsa Kyurchieva, Sonya Pilatova, Stefan Metodiev, Simona Dzhurova, Lidiya Vasileva, Gergana Spiridonova, Samuil Srebrev.